Accent Over Me
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Accent Over Me - Ep4 - Why English is difficult
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I don't know about you but I think that English is a difficult language to learn. Based on that, I asked some Brazilian friends about their difficulti...
Accent Over Me - Ep3 - Slang
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slang words are not in the dictionary. You just find it talking to people. But you can be fluent in a particular language and don't understand some wo...
Accent Over Me - Ep2 - Inspiration
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I was thinking about what inspired me to learn English and I found so many reasons that I thought I could share and inspire somebody else too. Hit the...
Accent Over Me - Ep1 - Memory
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I was curious about what makes us memorize things that will stay in our brains forever. I've found a lot of research online and even read a book about...
Introducing Accent Over Me
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I thought my accent was a problem and I will never communicate perfectly because of it. It's not true! Now, I'm reconciling with it and even change th...
Accent is not that cute - Ep20 - Homographs
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Words that spell exactly the same but have different meanings. It's tiresome just to think about it, right? For sure! I have some examples on this epi...
Accent is not that cute - Ep19 - Plural-Only Nouns
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is so weird that we have to use some nouns just in their plural forms and in this episode I'm talking about why to translate things between langu...
Accent is not that cute - Ep18 - Weather vocabs
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I always struggle to say how the weather is outside, especially when it's raining. How should I say when there's a light rain out there, for example? ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep17 - Tongue Twisters
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tongue twisters are good to improve the pronunciation in any language you're trying to learn. Even when you're a native speaker, they help to make you...
Accent is not that cute - Ep16 - Other x Another
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I have a lot of trouble using other and another. I never know where to put what. I've found some explanations for that and tried to understand how to ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep15 - Guest teacher: Luciana Diniz
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was awesome talking to Luciana Diniz, an English and Portuguese teacher at Portland Community College in Portland (OR) in the United States. She li...
Accent is not that cute - Ep14 - Magic "E" Rule
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of the few rules that I really like in English and that I have so much fun talking about it. It's the Magic "E" Rule: it states when the l...
Accent is not that cute - Ep13 - Pronouns
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to my friend Juliana. She's Brazilian like me and has problems with pronouns. I mix them all the time as well and I studied ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep12 - Halloween
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween!!!! If you don't live in the United States, you're probably not so familiar with this holiday. But even though you do, maybe you don't...
Accent is not that cute - Ep11 - Expressions
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know what "to show someone the ropes" means? What about "he's not playing with a full deck"? I picked some expressions that people who speak En...
Accent is not that cute - Ep10 - Think in English
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was created to answer a question from my dear friend Daianne Schittino: how could I start to think in English? I really don't know how to...
Accent is not that cute - Ep9 - Do or Make
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When do we use to do and to make in a sentence? Can we know the difference between them when we're talking or writing? For me, this a frequent mistake...
Accent is not that cute - Ep8 - Losing Accent
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm always looking for ways to get rid of my thick accent. Not because I think it's horrible, but, as I always say, an accent is not that cute if you ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep7 - Double Letters
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
English has a lot of words with double letters and when you wanna use gerunds or superlatives it becomes worse. But do you know when you double the le...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 6 - Basic English for Travelers
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The travel section at the book store is full of publications with basic sentences in English to teach you how to communicate in the country's native l...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 5 - Prepositions: in, on and at
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prepositions are a mess. Some people say that they don't have rules at all and even when I learned the grammar behind it later, I'm still confused. I ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 4 - Living abroad - Special Guest: Raf
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is so special! I have the honor to talk with my dear friend Rafa, known now as Raf since he moved to Canada almost three years ago. We ta...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 3 - Silent Letters
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you wanna feel angry about English and the difficulties to learn the language? Just hit the play button! In this episode, I'm talking about one of ...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 2 - Autological words
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm talking about some words that I always make fun of it: autological words. They're vocabs that describe themselves. Are you curiou...
Accent is not that cute - Ep 1 - Questions
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I decided to talk about my journey to learn English, my struggles getting used to it as my second language, and how important is to k...
Introducing Accent is not that cute
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is about English and all the struggles we face as second language learners. Hosted by Gabi, a Brazillian girl who's still learning and im...